Phonics Workshop February 2018

In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme In school, we follow the Letters and Sounds programme. Letters and Sounds is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education and Skills which consists of six phases.

Terminology Phoneme Graphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph Trigraph   Graphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph Trigraph Split digraph Abbreviations

Phase 1 There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. A1 – Environmental A2 – Instrumental sounds A3 – Body Percussion A4 – Rhythm and rhyme A5 – Alliteration A6 – Voice sounds A7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

Phase 2 Set 1: s, a, t, p Set 2: i, n, m, d Set 3: g, o, c, k Set 4: ck, e, u, r Set 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

Phase 3 Set 6: j, v, w, x Set 7: y, z, zz, qu Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, er Trigraphs: igh, ar, air, ure

Phase 4 This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

Phase 5 Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes. Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

Phase 6 Past tense Spellings Particular focus on suffixes -s -es -ing -ed -er -est -y -en -ful -ly -ment -ness

Segmenting Breaking down words for spelling. cat c a t

Segmenting Queen qu ee n

Building words from phonemes to read. Blending Building words from phonemes to read. c a t cat

Blending Qu ee n queen

What does a Phonics lesson look like? Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far. Teach Teach new phoneme air Practice Buried treasure Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair Apply Read captions: They were a good pair. She had long hair.

Teach your monster to read Resources Phonics play Teach your monster to read Geraldine Giraffe Phonics bloom

Tricky words There are some words that do not phonetically sound out. These are called tricky words. He he HE he

Year 1 Phonics Test

How you can help at home Correct pronunciation of sounds Regular reading (at least 4 times a week) Sound hunts, sound bingo Robot talk, reading words in environment, alien words, rhyming words, matching games, flashcard sounds, sound buttons Practise spellings, mnemonic words, using spelling words in sentences

Story bags Peter Rabbit e.g. Toy rabbits, flat cap, plastic/play gardening tools, toy vegetables etc. Three Little Pigs e.g. Toy pigs, straw, jenga/wooden blocks, toy wolf etc. Jack and the Beanstalk e.g. Toy axe, bean seeds/magic beans, main character puppets: Jack, Mother, Giant, cow, wizard etc.